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The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities cover

The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

Chapter 19: Q
By John Stephen Farmer
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The book assembles a historical glossary of words, phrases, and turns of expression used in English public schools and some universities, combining definitions, etymologies, and illustrative quotations; it covers both colloquial slang and formal institutional terminology, applies a historical-comparative method to trace survivals and innovations, documents customs and usages tied to specific schools, and appends more recent material supplied by correspondents, with the stated aim of explaining meaning and origin for students, scholars, and former schoolmen.

Quad (or Quod), subs. (general).—A quadrangle.

1840. Collegian’s Guide, 144. His mother ... had been seen crossing the QUAD in tears.

1884. Daily News, Oct. 14, p. 5, col. 1. His undignified nickname is carved in the turf of the college QUAD.

Verb (Rugby).—To promenade round Cloisters at calling over before a football-match.

Quarter (The), subs. (Charterhouse).—The quarter bell.

Quarter-marks, subs. (Harrow).—The aggregate of marks for work during the term, as opposed to marks gained in Trials (q.v.).

Quarter of Paper, subs. phr. (Winchester).—A quarter of a sheet of foolscap, on which the Prose and Verse Tasks were always written.—Mansfield (c. 1840). Cf. Vessel. Also used at Westminster.

1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 165. Besides this, he had to carry with him into school a portfolio containing a sufficiency of QUARTERNS of paper. All or any of these articles he was supposed to supply, upon requisition, to any boy of the “upper election.”

Quill, verb (Winchester).—To curry favour; to flatter: see Quilster. Hence (latterly) TO BE QUILLED = to be pleased. Cf. Quiller = a parasite.

Quiller, subs. (Winchester).—A parasite.

Quilster, subs. (Winchester).—A toady; a lickspittle.

Quod, subs. (Felsted).—See D. (Appendix).